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Elizabethtown & Paducah Railroad v. Pottinger

Court of Appeals of Kentucky

Decided April 15, 1873PublishedCited by 9 opinions

Case 39 — PETITION ORDINARY APPEAL EROM MUHLENBERG CIRCUIT COURT. CITED Story on Agency, secs. 134AL39. Civil Code, sec. 123. 8 Bush, 402, Maddox v. Fox. 6 Eng. L. and Eq. 320, Oort v. A. W. & R. W. Co. 8 Bing. 14, Planche v. Colborn. 8 Hare, 92, East. L. R. Co. v. Hattersby. 7 Hare, 136, Nixon v. Taff. Vale R. Co. 1 Greenleaf’s Evidence, sees. 113, 114. 13 B. Mon. 464, Fible v. Caplinger. 27 Eng.

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Case 39 — PETITION ORDINARY APPEAL EROM MUHLENBERG CIRCUIT COURT. CITED Story on Agency, secs. 134AL39. Civil Code, sec. 123. 8 Bush, 402, Maddox v. Fox. 6 Eng. L. and Eq. 320, Oort v. A. W. & R. W. Co. 8 Bing. 14, Planche v. Colborn. 8 Hare, 92, East. L. R. Co. v. Hattersby. 7 Hare, 136, Nixon v. Taff. Vale R. Co. 1 Greenleaf’s Evidence, sees. 113, 114. 13 B. Mon. 464, Fible v. Caplinger. 27 Eng. L. and Eq. 50, Ranger v. Great Western R. W. Co. 13 How. 339, P. W. & B. R. W. Co. v. Howard. 27 Vt. 680, Herrick v. Belknap. 14 B. Mon. 203, Collins v. Blackburn. 20 Eng. L. and Eq. 157, Hockester…

1Opinion of the Court

JUDGE LINDSAY

delivered the opinion oe the court.

The petition herein sets up a good cause of action. The conditions and stipulations of the contract are sufficiently-stated, and it is substantially averred that appellees were compelled to give up the contract and abandon the further prosecution of the-work by the arbitrary action of appellant in requiring them to work upon sections of the road where it was impossible to work successfully on account of high water and wet wéather, and upon other sections where appellant had not secured the right of way, and upon which they (the appellees) were…

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